Exploring Surrey's Past

Send With Ripley

Although there have been finds of Neolithic tools such as flint scrapers and flint flakes in Tannery Lane, Send, and elsewhere, and a prehistoric wooden paddle was found in a meadow in 1912, there is no evidence of Stone Age settlements as such in Send.

However the area around the River Wey, which flows through the greater part of Send and Ripley and the adjoining parishes of Wisley, Old Woking and Pyrford, probably provided places for people to live as well as a means of travel from earliest times.

It was a thriving community when recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 following the Norman Conquest. Ripley is first mentioned during the reign of Richard 1 (1189-1199) and may be assumed to be included in the entry for Send as transcribed in the Phillimore edition of Domesday Book – Surrey:

Land of Alfred of Marlborough
In Woking Hundred

Alfred holds Sande from the King, and Reginald from him.

Karl held it before 1066. Then and now it answered for 20 hides, land for 10 ploughs. In lordship 2 ploughs and 8 slaves.